TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES UPDATE: Getting Back on Track

We lost about 11 days of published and pending posts. That’s not great, but it’s way better than losing everything. Also good: Most of the lost posts have been retrieved from various caches and are back at the same URLs they were before. (That’s full URLs…not the abbreviated ones which I normally use on Twitter/FB for brevity. The shorter URLs are based on index numbers which are now different, thus those links won’t work. Setting up 50+ redirects is not something I’m keen on doing right now.)

The smallest things can sometimes turn us off. At least, that's what I have always found. Take Borders, for example. They announced today they are closing 200 stores costing them $2 million a week. These unprofitable locations are spread out across the U.S. and the long reaching effects on the publishing industry won't be known for a while yet. But Continue Reading →

[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Alternate History is fantastic. Authors take an event that actually happened, and then go crazy with it. Steampunk, supernatural creatures and myths come to life, wars that ended differently or in some cases never even happened. Alternate history is where we explore what never was but Continue Reading →

My latest AMC article talks about respected actors and actresses who have dabbled in the waters of this crazy thing we call science fiction. Check out Natalie Portman's Dirty Secret Is She Keeps Making Scifi Flicks (And She's Not Alone), which is now live at AMC TV's blog.